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20/40 - preview

StephenLeininger

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Reads 115
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StephenLeininger

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THIS IS A PREVIEW CHAPTER. Actual novel will be available for purchase January 2016.

Derek Wilson crashes funerals in his spare time. His family doesn't know, because they don't seem to care, and his friends don't know, because he doesn't have any. He trudges through life, resentful and bitter, his passions left behind.

And now, lacking a sense of true purpose, he does what he can to keep himself grounded in his twisted sense of reality by lying to others, and himself, about who he really is. 

Derek has to learn that life catches up to us- sometimes in the worst ways imaginable.All Rights Reserved

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A Beta's Second Love

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